Thursday Aug 23, 2012

I do know what I am doing on Sunday September 30 2012 at OOW - how about you ? Well, I am sitting in the back of a room packed with ADF enthusiasts at the ADF EMG Sunday session at Moscone South room 305. Chris Muir managed to get a full day track for the EMG on that Sunday, which I know was a lot of work. In addition a he got lots of good speakers with interesting topics lined up.

On the user group Sunday 30th of September the ADF EMG has a full
day of sessions for anybody interested in ADF. The collective sessions
are designed to have something for everyone, ADF beginners, ADF experts,
all. All sessions will be held in Moscone South room 305.

To start out with for OOW attendees coming from a Forms
background, Gert Poel and Pieter Gillis from iAdvise will give us the
lowdown on ADF for Forms programmers. This is a very important
presentation for the beginners in the ADF community who are coming from a
Forms background:

At the other end of the spectrum for EMG members who are looking to
expand their ADF skills beyond the basics, Aino Andriessen from AMIS
will be looking at using Hudson for building ADF applications.
Surprisingly via the EMG new member's survey around 25% of new members
have no idea about CI tools so I think Aino's presentation is a great
addition to the ADF EMG line up:

In this presentation Simon Haslam will be discussing the actual
Fusion Apps "ADF" architecture. In other words forgot the high level
"yes ADF was used to build Fusion Apps" bullet points, Simon is going
for a deep dive into the nitty gritty details of how ADF was used to
build Fusion Apps. For ADF EMG members remember all those times you
posted to the EMG wishing to know more details about how ADF was used in
Fusion Apps? This is the session for you to learn and bring your own
questions.

But the fun doesn't stop here. The final presentation is a
muti-slot presentation, where a team of FMW programmers, including ADF
programmers, SOA programmers and more will build an end-to-end
application, live in front of your very eyes:

Why this presentation rocks, is rather than a single presentation
on ADF here, then a separate presentation on SOA there, the goal of
this presentation is to bring it altogether so you can see an end-to-end
Fusion Middleware application being built at once. I've seen this
before, this is a great session, and I highly recommend it.

Is there something I disagree with? Yes, the title Chris chose for his announcement:

The Year After the Year of the ADF Developer - the ADF EMG at OOW 2012

Every year is an ADF year! No need to point to the past. The year after the year of the ADF developer is the year of ADF developer.